GroupBar is lightweight desktop tool created by the Visualization and Interaction for Business and Entertainment (VIBE) group at Microsoft Research. GroupBar offers enhanced window management capabilities in a Windows taskbar-like setting. The basic concept is that through simple drag-and-drop operations on window tiles within the bar, users can create lightweight, transient grouping relationships that allow them to perform certain higher-level window layout functions on multiple windows at once. In addition, windows and groups in the GroupBar can be persisted in a "Snapshot" which attempts to remember the position and contents of each window in a way that allows the Snapshot to be recreated at a later time, even if the windows have been rearranged or closed.
You can see a demo of GroupBar at about 9:47 into this tour of the VIBE team.
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